Project Leader: Francesco Finocchiaro, Ph.D.
francesco.finocchiaro[at]uibk.ac.at
Francesco Finocchiaro is Full Professor of Music History at the ‘G. Rossini’ Conservatory Pesaro and Privatdozent at the University of Innsbruck.
He works mainly on the relationship between composition, theory and aesthetics in twentieth-century music. He edited the Italian edition of Arnold Schönberg’s treatise Der musikalische Gedanke (Astrolabio-Ubaldini, 2011) and has published several essays on the Viennese School in international journals.
He has taught and conducted research at the Universities of Bologna, Milan “Bicocca”, IULM, Catania, Florence, Padua, Pescara, and abroad at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, at the Freie Universität of Berlin, at the University of Bayreuth, and at NYU Steinhardt.
From 2013 to 2019, he was Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Vienna for research into film music of the “silent” era. From 2023 to 2024, he was Research Scientist at the State University of Milan.
In twenty years of professional activity, he has published over 60 essays in three languages and given over 90 conferences in various countries. His publications include the monographs Musical modernism and German cinema, LIM (and in English, Palgrave, 2017) and Dietro un velo di organza, Accademia University Press, 2020. He is the author of an open-access digital database of critical sources on German silent cinema (FMJ Archive). His main areas of research include metaphorology, semiotics and media theory: with Maurizio Giani he edited Musica e metafora: storia analisi ermeneutica, AUP, 2017. He recently edited L’industria della persuasione. Musica e media nella politica culturale del fascismo, AUP, 2022, and with Paolo Gozza and Stefano Lombardi Vallauri Il discorso musicale. La musica e i suoi generi testuali nella storia, AUP, 2023.
He is member of Athena Musica Il Saggiatore musicale and the International Musicological Society, where he collaborates in the study groups “Music and Media” and “Global History of Music”. He co-directs the editorial series “Biblioteca di Athena Musica” (2017-) and collaborates as a peer reviewer with international scientific journals and publishers.
Film Music as a Problem in German Print Journalism (1907–1930)
FWF-Project P 28792 (2016–2019)
Department of Musicology, University of Vienna
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